Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
September 23rd, 2009, 13:37
My friend brought me a Toshiba MK4018GAS. He said that "letters started jumping... and then screen went off.. and that was it".
What I saw is the HDD did not spin. I disassembled the hard drive and found out that heads got stuck to the parking ramp and in addition they were somehow blocking platters. I managed to remove and put heads back and after that I could recover most of the data with dd_rescue, but 11 megabytes.
My question: what possibilities exist there to read data from bad sectors? I understand that ECC cannot recover it, so it is more corrupt than good, but I'd like to see and decide myself, what is good and what is not.
Thanks.
September 23rd, 2009, 14:11
U can try Read Long command.
pepe
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